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Have we Learned our own Lessons? Book Review of John Brewer’s Peace Processes
Northern Ireland’s peace process has been promoted as an international success story. The Republic’s Department of Foreign Affairs has its Conflict Resolution Unit, which aims to disseminate the ‘lessons’ of the Northern Ireland peace process. And some of the prominent players in our peace process have travelled abroad to other troubled spots to share their [...] read our review »
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Titanic: was it all right when it left here?
Not according to metallurgists Tim Foecke and Jennifer Hooper McCarty whose research has suggested that dodgy Harland and Wolff rivets were at fault for allowing the Titanic’s hull to be ripped apart by the pressure of the iceberg impact. With six of the hull’s chambers exposed to the Atlantic waters, the “unsinkable” ship lasted less [...] read our review »
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Total Politics: Top 20 NI Blogs…
Fair play to Iain, he managed to get over 2,200 people voting in his poll for the top Northern Irish blogs this year… We (just, I imagine) retained our top spot, with Splintered coming straight in at number 2, no doubt his pet subject du jour will have garnered him a lot of fans… I’ve [...] read our review »
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Comment on On the public utility of deceit and rejection of Republicanism’s millenarian ambition…
on 6 April 2010 at 9:08 pm
Richard English has a cracking review of the Voices from the Grave.
You are too easily pleased Mick.
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Comment on They’re all out to get me!
on 3 April 2010 at 4:43 pm
I had been approached by a developer for a strip of land and we were unable to agree a price. I sold the piece of land to a very close friend for £5. This close friend then sold it to a developer for what he paid. I should have been beside myself with rage at such an act of betrayal but I was not.
At a later time I was also able to help the wife of my very close friend with a gift of 5000 £5 pounds.
You may have great difficulty in making any sense of my largess but then you do not know the whole story.
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Comment on Ulster Unionist/Tory alliance in danger of collapsing?
on 11 March 2010 at 6:09 pm
The best that Ulster Unionism can hope for out of the mess they are in is a pact with the DUP in Fermanagh/South Tyrone and South Belfast.
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Comment on Willie O’Dea resigns as Irish Defence Minister
on 19 February 2010 at 4:02 am
What odds an election before the British?
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Comment on 6 Nations Predictions Contest
on 3 February 2010 at 4:37 pm
HHAAHAHAHHAHHHH
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Comment on 6 Nations Predictions Contest
on 3 February 2010 at 3:45 pm
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Comment on 6 Nations Predictions Contest
on 3 February 2010 at 4:12 am
1 England
2 Ireland
3 France
4 Ireland
5 Wales
6 England
7 Wales
8 Ireland
9 Italy
10 Ireland
11 England
12 France
13 France
14 Ireland
15 Wales
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Comment on DUP Split
on 2 February 2010 at 11:28 pm
We had to wait many years for Sinn Fein to reach an agreed way forward. They lost some support in the process. Give the DUP some time to reach the same point. They will also loose some on the way but for goodness sake the extremes have to live also. So what is the kerfuffle,get over it.
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Comment on On the importance of the law in online political discourse…
on 21 January 2010 at 11:10 pm
Mick
You bounced me out wrongly on Sunday last on a comment that read very similar to a piece in the Sunday Times by Liam Clarke. On my part the piece was written on Saturday night as an email to a friend and before the great man’s words were available to me.
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Comment on Lets play Devil’s Advocate for Iris
on 14 January 2010 at 5:37 pm
Good point Mark; especially given how understanding she was to the psychiatric problems visited on gay people.
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